Comments on: What’s the Point of Twitter? http://agilityloop.com/2009/07/27/whats-the-point-of-twitter/ The musings of the agile on the world of tech and government Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Josh Burley http://agilityloop.com/2009/07/27/whats-the-point-of-twitter/#comment-29 Josh Burley Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:58:54 +0000 http://agilityloop.com/?p=68#comment-29 While twitter does seem a bit silly, It can be a nice business tool. I do not necessarily want my clients to have access to my facebook page. www.joshburley.net While twitter does seem a bit silly, It can be a nice business tool. I do not necessarily want my clients to have access to my facebook page.

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]]> By: Tim http://agilityloop.com/2009/07/27/whats-the-point-of-twitter/#comment-28 Tim Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:44:22 +0000 http://agilityloop.com/?p=68#comment-28 I agree with your point that Twitter is useful as a "news" search engine capable of finding some really obscure, yet valuable, information. Additionally, Twitter can also be "useful" as a real-time news source, in that news items can frequently be found more quickly via Twitter than any standard media outlet (i.e. Michael Jackson). Two issues here though: 1) the reason for the speed is that these tweeted news items aren't subject to editorial approval and fact checking, meaning the reliability of these tweets is subject and 2) does anyone really need information THIS quickly? 99% of the time I'd say no one ever needs info this quickly...but there are cases for it such as first hand reports during terrorist attacks. I agree with your point that Twitter is useful as a “news” search engine capable of finding some really obscure, yet valuable, information. Additionally, Twitter can also be “useful” as a real-time news source, in that news items can frequently be found more quickly via Twitter than any standard media outlet (i.e. Michael Jackson). Two issues here though: 1) the reason for the speed is that these tweeted news items aren’t subject to editorial approval and fact checking, meaning the reliability of these tweets is subject and 2) does anyone really need information THIS quickly? 99% of the time I’d say no one ever needs info this quickly…but there are cases for it such as first hand reports during terrorist attacks.

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